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■ Production
Management System
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Features of Production Management System
Manufacturing
requirements are determined based on sales forecast, customer orders or
inventory targets. With
AMMIC CM/P, production schedule is generated with information provided by
different modules such as customer order, inventory, manufacturing order
and purchase order. With
this schedule, management can effectively plan the production, monitor
the inventory movement and set the production target. Furthermore, the system provides
tools to analyze productivity and its production cost given the schedule
and the actual production for a certain period.
With
lot tracking function, system provides strict quality control. As fully
integrated with other systems such as Financial Management System and
Cost Management System, data processing is efficiently done and data
integrity is maintained.
Management can derive information necessary for decision making
from different modules integrated to the Production Management
System. It gives them ways
to evaluate performance of each department in the company especially in
production. In addition, information is disseminated accordingly.
And if the production results adequately meet the
requirements of production schedule plan, it shows that an effective
Production Management System is utilized.
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■ Production
Management System supports Customer Needs
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Nowadays, production management system has been
developed not only to serve the needs of production but it caters to the
needs of sales and their customers as well. With the enhanced production management system, the
sales activity becomes more efficient. Features are provided where customer
satisfaction is met. Because
of accurate and on time sales information of customer orders, production
and its plan is easily done.
An effective control of inventory and cost is achieved.
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■ Production
Management System Diagram
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Below is the diagram that shows the flow of production
management system. The
activities consist of planning, scheduling, and development. Accurate and timely
gathering and processing of bulk data are accomplished because of fully
integrated modules installed with the whole system. With automatic processing like
creation of data and report generation, requirements of management for
data integrity and quick access to information are met.
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■ Requirements for
a Production Management System
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A
production management system should meet the requirements of a
manufacturing industry for the following:
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・ Decrease manpower in order to decrease
cost.
・ Respond quickly to the needs of production and
provide accurate and timely information to management.
・ Fully integrated production data.
・ Provide flexible production and cost control.
・ Capable of processing data and gathering
information by factory or manufacturing section.
・ Customer oriented production
system
・ With EUC （End User
Computing) capability.
・ International quality standard -
ISO9000 and GMP - Compliant.
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■ What are the benefits
from using an ERP package?
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With
an ERP package installed, management is assured of increase in efficiency
in all activities within the company such as purchasing, manufacturing,
sales and accounting. Because
of fully integrated processing of data and generation of reports, control
over inventory and cost is effectively done. Necessary adjustment to any activities in production
and sales is easily determined because of timely access to accurate information.
As
what is always mentioned as main quality of current ERP, its big
difference from the old version is that it is now fully integrated and
information of different activities to produce the data can be processed
automatically. Below is list
of a good quality ERP package:
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Support basic business requirements of top
management for financial and production information that are essential
to their decision-making.
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Support requirements of a manufacturing
industry for determining production based on market, incoming order or required
inventory level of the management. In addition, production by project type can be done.
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Support data integrity requirement such as validation
for duplicate records, data accuracy and security control. Real time update of
transactions is provided.
Example, when shipment of finished product is processed,
inventory is immediately updated and its transaction can be automatically
interfaced to accounting for journal entry. In effect, there is a prompt recording of results to
Profit and Loss Statement.
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Business process lead-time is reduced and backlog
is avoided because of the interface between sub-systems. Monthly calculation of data and
information is speed up.
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Provide user-friendly system maintenance and
operation. User can easily
learn the functions.
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Provide features that are common to the
industry so it can effectively support the needs of a manufacturing company
with huge operation.
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Additional
source (Bibliography): Success of Law of ERP for supply chain (industrial
committee); Basis of production management system diagram – SCM and ERP
(the Japanese industry publisher)
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